Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-29
DAKOTA NEWS.

Hunter has staked out a cemetery.
"A Standard oil tank will be built at
Fargo.
Flax straw sells at 50. so q ton at Vent
worth.
The park question is being agitated at
Sioux Falls.
The poor Of Burleigh County cost
$3.50 last year.
-Jamestown's artesian we'll cost seven
thousand dollars.
Sioux Falls is accumulating q first
class base ball club.
The Aberdeen Ne,cs will take Assoc
ciated Press dispatches.
Dan Scott will engage in the oat rails
ing business at Sioux Falls.
The two brewelies ut Fargo last year
manufactured 800, 400 gallons of beer.
Company Il, of the Slate militia, will
erect q $4,000 armory at Wateltown this
year.
In Judge Trips court the attorneys
are allowed only SO many minutes for ar
gument.
&C. o. Bailey, a Sioux Falls lawyer, has
a law library containing over five thousand
volumes.
The Aberdeen News is now published
as a morning paper with Associated Press
dispatches.
H. L. Maxey has been appointed City
Auditor of Fargo, and William C. Resser
City Attorney.
Marshal Mcclure, formerly of James,
town, has begun the publication of the
Minot Tribune.
Aberdeen claims to be the railroad hub
of the territory. 1t now has twelve passen-
ger trains daily.
Lead City has over half succeeded in
raising 80, 500 for a Fourth of July fire.
mems tournament.
DIR. Alloway, the territorial surgeon,
has found cases Of CHAMBERS among the
horses of Big Stone City.
John Crimmins, of Brownsville, cele-
brated Easter by eating fourteen hard
boiled eggs. He was found dead in his
bed the next morning.
Secretary Endicott has ordered the
commandant ut Fort Yates to issue supplies
of food and clothing to seventy six flood
sufferers on the bottom lands.
Peter Weber served out a sentence of
one year in the Sioux Falls penitentiary on
the 18th inst. for larceny and was dis
charged. He came from Lake County.
"A daily paper is talked of for Hot
Springs at the beginning of the watering
season. The townsite company expects to
entertain a great many people there this
season.
Every incoming train brings from 100
to 200 people to Minot. Many Of these
have engaged with the Manitoba Railway
on the extension but a goodly number are
emigrants in search of homes.
The North Dakota Pharmaceutical AS
ISOLATION met at Fargo. Thu new law pro-
vides that the association shall name five
members from whom the Governor shall
select three, to act as the board of phar-
macy. Those named were E.. G.. Maxey,
Fargo; II. L. Haussamer, Grafton; Robert
Bergh, Grand Forks; Frank Frisby, Bis
marck, and Fred Voegeli, La Moure.
-Mandan Pioneer: Maj. Mitchell has
brought to the Pioneer Office a specimen
of native coal which plainly demonstrates
that the formation is from forest trees.
The specimen looks like a piece of slab
wood similar to that sold by the mills, ex-
cept that this specimen is coal. It is about
eighteen inches long, eight inches wide and
one or two inches in thickness, covered
with bark and pitch in many places.
The Benton River Press brings the
new from the home of L. C.. Power, the
president of the line, that five of the upper
Missouri steamers will be lighted by cleo
tricity during the summer. The electric
light was used on two of the boats last
season, and this additional improvement is
another of the many proofs of the develop
ment of the MISSOURI Valley and the prom
Use of improvement in business.
The United States Supreme Court re-
Gently affirmed with costs the case of Seth
Bullock and the firm of Star & Bullock
against John l.. Farwcll, brought from the
Supreme Court Of Dakota. Farwell sued
in the District Court Of Lawrence County
to recover the value of certain promissory
notes made by Seth Bullock and Endorsed
by Star s. Bullock. He carried his case
and the case was appealed to the Territor-
ial Supreme Court on the ground that GER
tain demurrers of the plaintiff to the an
swer of the defendants had been sustained.
The Territorial Supreme Court affirmed
the judgment of the court below. The de-
PENDANTS appealed to the United States su-
preme Court, where it met a like fate.
Destructive prairie fires are reported rs
having occurred in different localities our
ing the recent heavy wind storm in the vi
cinity of Sioux Falls. About fifteen miles
northwest of that city fire destroyed the
home of J. jacobson and the family barely
escaped with their lives. John Berry lost
his barn and q large amount of grain. Will
liam Igo lost his barn and contents; w. L..
Brooks lost his stable, five head of cattle,
grain, etc.; F. M. Hall lost his house, barn
and contents, and his granary, containing